German Federal Election 2021 - Who will succeed Angela Merkel?

[Admiral Yi]

 

Nice one.

[HVC]

[Richard Hakluyt]

The man with the ornate tea cosy. Which would also make a good Bond film title.

[celedhring]

I smell that silly hat man is a trap. So I will vote for bubbles girl.

[grumbler]

Lots of punchable faces there.

Bubbles gal is too cutsie for me.  I'll go with five-o'clock-shadow dude.

[celedhring]

Lots of punchable faces there.

Bubbles gal is too cutsie for me.  I'll go with five-o'clock-shadow dude.

I want to believe that's a still from a German murder mystery show and he's the hard-boiled detective in it.

[Duque de Bragança]

Lots of punchable faces there.

Bubbles gal is too cutsie for me.  I'll go with five-o'clock-shadow dude.

I want to believe that's a still from a German murder mystery show and he's the hard-boiled detective in it.

He is no Stefan Derrick, Der Alte, Matula or Schimanski,  so I'll pass. 

[Tonitrus]

Humourless glasses women. She just screams no nonsense German.

She screams blonde/German Rachel Maddow to me. 


Also voted bubbles...but of course, that is most likely going to be the Greenie party.

[Barrister]

So some pics are incredibly silly, but others are pretty standard.  I feel like I'm being set up here, since I've been open about how I vote on these things.

So I'm voting for Shrek.  I feel he's the secret centre-right politician of the group.

[Duque de Bragança]

Shrek is Markus Söder, CSU, the Bavarian wing of the CDU, a bit more conservative and social, or so they sometimes claim, on average than the CDU (christian-democrats).

[spoiler]Not a true Bavarian however, he is Franconian after all.[/spoiler]

[Zanza]

I could not find silly pics of all candidates.

Top to bottom:

Christian Lindner (FDP, classical liberal)
Annalena Baerbock (Greens, in Germany that means centrist/urban)
Olaf Scholz (Social Democrats, center-left, mainly West German)
Susanne Hennig-Wellsow (Left Party, socialists, mainly East Germany)
Achim Laschet (Non-Bavarian Conservatives, center-right)
Markus Söder (Bavarian Conservatives) - he actually withdrew today and supports Laschet now
Time Chrupalla (AFD, fascist, mainly East Germany )

[Caliga]

That last guy totally looks like a Nazi to me, so not him.  I guess I'd have to go with the dog guy.  How could anyone who speaks German and loves dogs be evil?

[celedhring]

Hey Zanza, what's the Green's overall platform on European matters? Since there's a chance they might win.

[Zanza]

Most likely is the guy with the silly hat, followed by bubbles with a very outside chance for dog guy

[Zanza]

Hey Zanza, what's the Green's overall platform on European matters? Since there's a chance they might win.

Baerbock is a convinced Euro federalist. The party is in favour of more European integration.